4. “Women still outnumber men in nursing.”
Correct Answer: 2
Rationale 1: The average age of the registered nurse is 46 years, and while the number of RNs under age 30 is
increasing, more RNs are retiring than are entering the profession.
Rationale 2: The demand for nurses is increasing because of sicker clients both in the hospital and in outpatient
settings. Job numbers for nurses are expected to continue to grow.
Rationale 3: Nursing faculty members are also aging and moving into retirement.
Rationale 4: Women do continue to outnumber men in the nursing profession.
Global Rationale:
Cognitive Level: Analyzing
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Evaluation
Learning Outcome: 1-9: Discuss the changes and challenges that nurses face now and into the future.
Question 15
Type: MCMA
A health care organization has just achieved Magnet status. During the award ceremony the organization’s chief
executive officer should give primary praise for this achievement to which employees?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Medical staff
2. Nurse executive
3. Staff nurses
4. Managers in support services such as laboratory and radiology
5. Administrative professionals overseeing services such as accounting, billing, and medical records
Rationale 1: Magnet status is focused on nursing excellence. Medical staff would be involved in the achievement,
but not as primary players.
Rationale 2: While much of the work will have been delegated to others, the nurse executive is a primary force in
achieving Magnet status.
Rationale 3: Magnet status focuses on nursing excellence. Staff nurses are the primary drivers of this excellence.
Rationale 4: While these employees would be involved in this effort, Magnet status is focused on nursing
excellence.
Rationale 5: While these professionals would contribute to the achievement, Magnet status is focused on nursing
excellence.
Global Rationale:
Cognitive Level: Analyzing
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-5: Explain how to become a Magnet-certified hospital.
Question 16
Type: MCSA
The nurse manager’s expected outcome is to increase evidence-based practice on the nursing unit. To meet this
outcome, the manager encourages nurses to base their practice on which technique?
1. Intuition
2. Personal clinical experience
3. Knowledge from nursing school
4. Current research
Global Rationale:
Cognitive Level: Analyzing
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-4: Describe how evidence-based practice is changing nursing.
Question 17
Type: MCSA
Which strategy is most likely to increase participation in the use of evidence-based practice in nursing?
1. Ensure adequate training and encourage its use by the nursing staff.
2. Elicit employee opinions of its use at least four times per year.
3. Give those nurses willing to use it extra recognition.
4. Ensure adequate training, recognition, and easy access to the Internet.
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 1-4: Describe how evidence-based practice is changing nursing.
Question 18
Type: MCMA
The organization that awards Magnet status would look for environments where which practices are the norm?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
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Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Nurses are involved in decision making.
2. Rewards are focused on ideas that save money.
3. Once a decision is made, it stands.
4. Nurses may be asked to work overtime.
5. Nurses are involved in educating the community about health.
Global Rationale:
Cognitive Level: Applying
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Implementation
Learning Outcome: 1-6: Explain what emerging technologies mean for nursing.
Question 21
Type: MCMA
A nurse executive is considering initiating a blog to enhance communication among staff nurses, managers, and
supervisors throughout the organization’s different campuses. What serious considerations should the nurse make
prior to starting a blog?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. Open access to the blog may damage recruiting efforts.
2. Blogs are difficult to use and expensive to maintain.
3. Users of the blog must be very careful not to divulge any information that would violate client confidentiality.
4. The organization’s reputation may be altered by a blog.
5. Most nurses would likely not use the blog.
Cognitive Level: Analyzing
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Planning
Learning Outcome: 1-6: Explain what emerging technologies mean for nursing.
Question 22
Type: MCMA
The nurse manager has four different generations represented in the nursing staff on the unit. What statements
indicate the manager is wise about how to deal with this generational mix?
Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected.
Standard Text: Select all that apply.
1. “I don’t see why everyone can’t just get along.”
2. “Generation X nurses are just lazy.”
3. “Our Generation Y nurses help keep us all up on new technology.”
4. “The most loyal of all my nurses are the traditionalists.”
5. “I expect that our next manager will come from my group of baby boomers.”
Client Need: Safe Effective Care Environment
Client Need Sub: Management of Care
Nursing/Integrated Concepts: Nursing Process: Assessment
Learning Outcome: 1-7: Describe how cultural, gender, and generational differences affect management.
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